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Variational Approximations For Density Deconvolution, Yue Chang
Variational Approximations For Density Deconvolution, Yue Chang
Doctoral Dissertations
This thesis considers the problem of density estimation when the variables of interest are subject to measurement error. The measurement error is assumed to be additive and homoscedastic. We specify the density of interest by a Dirichlet Process Mixture Model and establish variational approximation approaches to the density deconvolution problem. Gaussian and Laplacian error distributions are considered, which are representatives of supersmooth and ordinary smooth distributions, respectively. We develop two variational approximation algorithms for Gaussian error deconvolution and one variational approximation algorithm for Laplacian error deconvolution. Their performances are compared to deconvoluting kernels and Monte Carlo Markov Chain method by …